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. 1983 Oct 25;11(20):7215–7230. doi: 10.1093/nar/11.20.7215

Carbon-13 NMR in conformational analysis of nucleic acid fragments. Heteronuclear chemical shift correlation spectroscopy of RNA constituents.

P P Lankhorst, C Erkelens, C A Haasnoot, C Altona
PMCID: PMC326457  PMID: 6195595

Abstract

The assignment of the non-quaternary 13C resonances by means of two-dimensional heteronuclear chemical shift correlation spectroscopy is presented for several oligoribonucleotides: The dimers m6(2)AU, m6(2)Am6(2)A and mpUm6(2)A and the trimers m6(2)AUm6(2)A and m4(2)Cm4(2)Cm6(2)A. The temperature and concentration dependency of the 13C chemical shifts are studied with emphasis on the behaviour of the dimer m6(2)AU. The present study shows that in the 5-50 mM range the concentration-dependent chemical shift changes of the ribose carbons are negligible compared to chemical shift changes due to intramolecular events. All compounds studied show a surprising correlation between the chemical shifts of the carbon atoms of the ribose ring and the sugar conformational equilibrium as expressed by the percentage N or S conformer. Thus the chemical shift data can be used to obtain the thermodynamical parameters of the two-state N/S equilibrium. Parameters deduced for m6(2)AU are Tm = 306 K and delta S = -25 cal mol-1 K-1, which values are in satisfactory agreement with results obtained earlier from 1H NMR and from Circular Dichroism.

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